CONTEMPLATION or FOOD FOR THOUGHT

sniper

There is no situation, however bad, that whining won't make worse!

vint2

Even a fish would stay out of trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

keetoowah

what a great snippet vint2

vint2

Thank you!!

tracker

"I've never seen a situation so dismal that the presence of a policeman couldn't make it worse" --Brendan Beehan, Irish poet

"The man that made time made a lot of it"--John Alcorn (my dad)

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt"--unknown

"He's a wee man, laddie, you dinna wanna hae no ken of him"--my Scottish gramma.

(translated---you don't want to know him)

tracker

"Boy, you don't have the sense God gave goats" --also my dad

"Choose well what you're going to say, you can't un-say it"--that one's mine.

ElyBoy

I live by this, and try to teach my kids the same thing--
"Don't assume anything, for if you assume, it will come back to bite you in the arse real quick"

Eric

vint2

I knew a fella used to say that when you assume, you make an ass of u n me. I believe he had a point.

Vince

tracker wrote:

"Boy, you don't have the sense God gave goats" --also my dad

My Dad used to say "Boy, if brains (or commonsense) was dynamite you wouldn't have enough to blow a part in your hair".

Cheers, Vince

gelandangan

Don't be stupid - Its not smart.

read this somewhere

vint2

Pa used to say,"Boy, you just keep your own nose clean and you'll have enough to do!"

rdncktink

told one of my students the other day "to pass this class you have to be here everyday.....(her response well I have been)....you may have been in class but have you been here"

"more nervouse than a long tail cat in room full of rocking chairs" ~ Dolly Parton

"doesn't have the brains god gave balsa wood"

"Lord loves him because no one else does"

and than what I learned in Texas everything is okay if you start the comment with "I'm sorry ya'll but....."

Same idea from Mississippi "Well just bless your heart but....."

1895ss

Karate instructor ......... "wherever you are, be there"

Bushmaster

Hummm. The roads in Canada must be in good shape...He's (1895ss) back. And so soon. How ya be?

1895ss

I'm good. I do come home evenings unless we are working out of town and I'm home weekends except on occasion we work Saturdays. By the way, the roads in Saskatchewan need lots of work, I don't know about the rest of Canada.